Pilot your own giant robot in the Real Time Strategy game AirMech!
Anyone notice that our library of games for this generation lack robots? Isn’t there like some kind of geek-law, next to the 5th commandment that ‘thou shall only consume Cheetos’ which dictates ‘thou shall drive giant robots into explosions and bullets, and thou shall smile with glee’? Maybe we’re missing all that in the swarm of publishers struggling to make North American soldier jobs look exciting. But really, unless each soldier was trained like a caped crusader with a fetish of putting little boys in skimpy outfits, no soldier could compare to giant robots blasting each other to pieces with weapons of mass destruction. At least that is my theory on why Carbon Games made AirMech for the PC.
AirMech has been in closed beta for awhile now, and so far it seems to be accepted well by fans around the world. There are servers for the game in USA, Brazil, UK, France, and even Japan. The setting for AirMech takes place in the future of our world, where war has brought civilization down to its knees. The survivors now build, salvage, and use giant bipedal robots to defend what remains of refugees, or invade pockets of innocents raider-style.
Getting into the closed beta will cost you some money on Steam (about $20 USD right now, with over 30% off the full price), but the game supports a free-to-play model beyond that. So far the game will bring 86 achievements to the Steam version, along with inviting friends from Steam into games. Steam leaderboards are also included, so you can see how you rank against someone else around the world.
The game claims to have “DotA-style gameplay”, or the mod from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos known as Defense of the Ancients. The game is a mixture or RPG elements and RTS gameplay where you control giant robots to move around on a map, level up their parts and take on another forces’ base. You have a variety of AirMech robots to choose from, each with their own unique abilities and attributes, along with choosing what AI-controlled units to bring into battle. So if your looking for a mixture of RPG/RTS elements that avoids elves or fantasy setting, then AirMech should interest you.
AirMech can be purchased from Steam right now to get into the closed beta.
